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We recently experienced a hardware failure that caused our SQL 2005 server to take it in the dump. The good news is that we have the MDF and LOG files for all the databases, the bad news is that we did not have .bak files for the system databases.

Is there any way to restore the System Databases (msdb, master, model) from the MDF/LOG files, or is there a process I can follow to create a bak file that I can then restore them from?

We have quite a few configuration items that were lost in the recovery. I have been working on getting the mission critical application stuff back in working order and now I'm trying to restore all of our jobs and such.